[ALUG] Gnome "calendar" is incorrect!

[Adam Bower]

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 03:58:25PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:

> Specifically: The "calendar"/"clock" application
> in the Gnome panel is incorrect for the year 1752
> (and therefore for all preceding years).

Oh, yes... hmmn, doesn't do Julian > Gregorian correctly... I wonder
what Windows does, oh... how disappointing, Windows only does 1980 >
2099 how rubbish ;) 

> It is described as the "Clock Applet", and its Help
> only describes its time functions. However, when
> you left-click on it a calendar comes up, which is
> what I'm referring to. This is not described anywhere
> that I can find. Nor can I locate what program is
> executed for the "Clock Applet".

It is part of the Gnome Panel package on my Ubuntu box. 

> Any thoughts? [trivial question of course...]

I'm guessing that it was programmed badly not using the standard
libraries for doing this kind of thing, but far more importantly how on
earth did you discover this? Given that I had to hold down the mouse 
button for nearly a minute to scroll back to 1752! You do know about the 
program cal don't you? As I compared the output from gnome calendar to
the output from the command cal 1752.

Adam
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